The Ukrainian authorities have started the seizure of assets belonging to the Russian gas giant Gazprom citing its alleged non-compliance with the decision of the Stockholm arbitration court. …read more Source:...

Have you ever opened a vintage chest to find a roll of cheesecloth, brightly coloured embroidery and fleecy rugs, hand-woven blankets, a different world made of hard work, colour and memories… This is the world young artist Donka Minkovskaya, a Bulgarian artist from Ukraine is going back to. She came to the land of her forefathers to put on...

Russia’s new ambassador to the United States has been described as both ruthless and charming. Since his arrival in Washington six months ago, he has emphasized the charm — hosting parties, giving speeches and even launching a bluegrass-backed embassy podcast at a moment of bitter U.S.-Russian relations. But Anatoly Antonov says he has been...

In a March 6 interview with the Diena newspaper, Janis Sarts, the head of the Riga-based NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (StratComCOE), said that in comparison with attempts to hack into digital voting systems in the United States, France, the Netherlands and Ukraine, nothing like this can happen in Latvia due to the...

Credits Mladen Antonov/AFP?getty Images Alt Text There are now fewer than 100 days to go to the start of the Russia World Cup Foreign Office plays down Boris Johnson threat after alleged Kremlin poisoning One-Minute Read Wednesday, March 7, 2018 – 5:30am …read more Source: The...

Theresa May’s Mansion House speech on Brexit last week amounted to “double cherry-picking” with “no change in substance” from her government’s previous position, according to a confidential European Commission assessment circulated to diplomats from EU countries. It concluded that although she took a more realistic tone, the prime...

This year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC) will be held from February 16 – 18th, 2018 at the “Hotel Bayerischer Hof” again. On the agenda are, in particular, the future and ability of the EU to act and its relations with Russia and the United States. Further points of discussion will be the threat to the liberal national...

New charges have been filed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and aide Rick Gates, but the charges were put under seal by the court, obscuring the nature and import of the development. The new charging document filed in federal court in Washington could be a superseding...

Subscribe to The Global Politico on Apple Podcasts here. | Subscribe via Stitcher here. When Ash Carter became President Barack Obama’s fourth and final secretary of defense in early 2015, Russia had just seized Crimea by force from its neighbor Ukraine in the first such armed takeover of territory in Europe since the end of World War II,...